200 Yard Cobweb Scares Visitors At North Texas State Park
August 31, 2007 by Kimberly
Exotic Animal Newsflash:
A 200 yard web? That’s what I said!!! That translates into 180 m across. Now, that’s a huge cobweb. I think it would scare me a little too…LOL
This web at Lake Tawakoni State Park has entomologists from all over Canada and the United States a little baffled. They say it could have been made by social cobweb spiders, or as a result of spiders in mass dispersal in an effort to spread out from one another…Now, that would be a lot of spiders!
It is said that if you sit and listen, you can hear the screech of the caught insects. Wow, the spider(s) will be able to eat seemingly forever from the captured prey…well, at least until the fall, when the spiders will start dying off.
To read more on this story, go to:
Sprawling spider web fascinates, repels visitors to north Texas park
I certainly would love to see this amazing spider feat. People should be watching to see if there’s writing in the web (Charlotte’s Web
Until next time…
Live Exotically,
Kimberly Edwards 
P.S. I found a really neat DVD on spider webs and vintage spiders that I thought was fascinating…Check it out:
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200 Yard Cobweb Scares Visitors At North Texas State Park…
This is so crazy…Wow, what a site this would be to see. Maybe I’ll be able to see it in TX when we move back down if it is early enough in the fall……
I used to go camping there all the time when I was a kid and we found huge spider webs (they seemed huge to me then) but none of them were the size of the one reported here.